Philippe Crist is Advisor for Innovation and Foresight at the  International Transport Forum (ITF) at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He coordinates the research of the ITF’s Corporate Partnership Board and manages international research projects for the ITF’s 59 Member countries. His current work focuses on disruptive urban mobility scenarios and examines how car-based and active mobility, public transport and taxis must adapt to these. He is also leading work on Data science and public policy within the ITF investigating new strategies to leverage knowledge derived from new and rapidly growing data sources to improve transport decision-making. In 2016 he won the Danish Cycling Embassy's Leadership Award for Cycling Promotion. His other work currently looks at managing mobility in rapidly growing urban areas, assessing GHG emission strategies in the transport sector, as well as investigating national transport asset and network management strategies. He also does much of his best thinking on a bicycle.

Timothy is a key advisor and thought leader on the future of transportation and automation, with a strong track record to deliver innovative multi-modal transportation and land development projects. He is the Founder of City Innovate, a smart city accelerator. Timothy was the Strategic Partnerships lead at Waymo/Google X, helping commercialise a Moonshot company while being fully immersed in AI with the world's most experienced automated vehicle technology. Prior experience includes Chief Innovation Officer for San Francisco’s transportation agency, leading the US Smart City Challenge, the agency’s Strategic Work Plan that met its 50% private auto/50% sustainable mode share goal 3 years early and the Vision Zero traffic safety programme.

Krista Huhtala-Jenks has been working on developing the revolutionary Mobility as a Service concept for several years. At MaaS Global, the world's first true MaaS operator with its Whim service, Krista leads a dual role as the Head of Go-to-Market, and Head of Ecosystem & Sustainability. She focuses on rapidly expanding Whim to new markets, working closely with all stakeholders interested in making MaaS a reality. Having previously worked on MaaS policy and legislation at the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications she strongly believes that MaaS is the win-win solution for people's mobility needs and the society. Besides her day job, Krista moonlights as a hard core metal head.

Karen Vancluysen was appointed as Secretary General of the Polis network in September 2014, after having been the network's Research Director for 8 years. Since 1998, she has been involved in European urban transport networking and policy activities and many EU research and innovation projects covering a wide range of urban mobility topics. Polis is the leading European network of cities and regions focussing on urban transport innovation. For 30 years already, members have been working together to develop sustainable and innovative urban mobility solutions for the city of today and tomorrow. Polis supports the exchange of experiences between European local and regional authorities, facilitates the dialogue with other actors of the transport sector, including industry and research, and acts as the urban mobility voice of its members towards the European institutions. The network engages in debates around topical issues such as MaaS, automated transport, electromobility, and shared mobility services.

Paulo Humanes is Head of Global Strategic Business Development at PTV Planung Transport Verkehr AG, a German company specialising in software solutions and consulting services for traffic and transportation, mobility, and logistics. His international career includes over a decade in the UK in transport planning with Stirling Maynard and as Technical Director in Jacobs Consulting, he has an extensive background in transport planning and modelling. A passionate transport professional, he is interested in the future of mobility and how it will impact lives, businesses, government, and cities. He is also an Advisory Board Member of Newcastle University. In his role with PTV, he applies his expert knowledge in traffic and transport planning in his work with governments, businesses and cities, helping them to rise to future challenges and develop better, greener and safer transport solutions on local, regional, national and global scales. A Portuguese national, Paulo speaks six languages fluently.

Melinda Crane is Chief Political Correspondent at Deutsche Welle-TV and hosts the talk shows "Quadriga" and "People and Politics" She was Senior Producer of "Global Players" on CNBC. She has moderated a wide variety of podium discussions and conferences for public organisations and private sector clients. Among her areas of expertise are transatlantic politics; women, family education issues; climate and environment; business and economics; new media and the internet. Crane holds a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School and a Doctoral Degree in political economy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Stientje van Veldhoven began her career in 1997 as personal assistant to Elly Plooij van Gorsel, a member of the European Parliament for the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). From 1999 to 2003 she served as an innovation policy officer at the Ministry of Economic Affairs. From 2003 she worked at the Permanent Representation of the Netherlands to the European Union as first secretary for research policy and as scientific and technological attaché. In 2007 Ms Van Veldhoven became a policy advisor at the European Commission, focusing on the coordination of intergovernmental initiatives. From 2009 to 2010 she was unit coordinator for the Zuidvleugel Randstad region at the Ministry of Economic Affairs. On 17 June 2010 Ms Van Veldhoven became a member of the House of Representatives for Democrats ’66 (D66), with policy responsibility for issues including sustainability, mobility, climate and energy, development cooperation, and agriculture, nature and food quality. From 2012 to 2017 she served as a member of the presidium and secretary to the D66 parliamentary party. On 26 October 2017 Stientje van Veldhoven was appointed State Secretary for Infrastructure and Water Management in the third Rutte government.

François Davenne, a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications d’Evry in 1988 and of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) in 1999, has always promoted interdisciplinarity as a key factor for success. After experience in international satellite telecommunications, his first assignments were in the housing sector and required strong financial and legal skills. He was involved in policy and regulation of the sector, and managed key operational programmes, in particular for the city of Paris. After three years in the French Ministry of Transport working on railway safety and regulations, with the emphasis on European regulations, he was elected Secretary General of OTIF in 2012, where, since 1 January 2013, he has promoted interdisciplinarity and partnership building to expand the uniform regulations for international carriage by rail. He’s currently Deputy Director General of UIC, the International Union of Railways. He will become Director General of the organisation end of June 2019.

Umberto de Pretto is the Secretary General of the International Road Transport Union (IRU). He joined the IRU in 1995 as Head of Economic Affairs. He then became Policy Coordinator and Head of Strategy, and was appointed Deputy Secretary General in 2002. His vision looking forward to 2020 is that the IRU will lead the road transport industry in embracing innovation and making sure that the industry is ready for the challenges and opportunities ahead. After graduating from Ottawa’s Carleton University in Political Science, Economics and International Relations, he worked as a Legislative Assistant for Ministers and Members of the Canadian Parliament and then moved to Paris in 1992 to take on the position of Head of the Transport Division, to be shortly afterwards named Deputy Director of the International Chamber of Commerce, responsible for International Commercial Practices and Techniques.

Erik Jonnaert is the Secretary General of the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA), a position he has held since July 2013. Prior to his ACEA appointment, Mr Jonnaert was Procter & Gamble's (P&G) Vice President for External Relations in Europe and Asia. Mr Jonnaert began his career at Linklaters law firm, before moving on to gain over 25 years of public and regulatory affairs, communications, and stakeholder relations experience in various leadership roles at P&G. In addition to his ACEA posting, Mr Jonnaert is currently chairman of the steering committee of EATA, the European Automotive and Telecom Alliance, which aims to accelerate the deployment of connected and automated driving. Jonnaert is also on the Supervisory Board of ERTICO (advocating intelligent mobility solutions) and on the Board of the Mobility as a Service (MaaS) Alliance. A Belgian national, Mr Jonnaert holds masters in law from the University of Ghent, Belgium and from Harvard Law School, USA.

Tomas Eneroth is Minister for Infrastructure of Sweden since July 2017, responsible for transport and infrastructure in the Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation. He studied sociology and political science at Växjö University College. Before being appointed Minister for Infrastructure Mr Eneroth was Parliamentary Group Leader for the Social Democratic Party (2014–2017). Mr Eneroth has been a Member of Parliament since 1994 and during this time he has filled several different positions in different policy areas, including Chairman of the Committee on Social Insurance and Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Industry and Trade. He was a political adviser in the Ministry of Education between 1996 and 2002, and State Secretary in the same Ministry in 1999.

Ms. Hutt Hesse holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the Catholic University of Chile and she has completed International Finance and Business Administration programs at Georgetown University. She was a Professor for the Master’s in Public Policy program in the School of Economics and Business of University of Chile. From June 2014 to January 2018, she was a partner of Quiz Consulting, specializing in transportation studies. She was a member of the board of directors of the Mejillones port facilities company Complejo Portuario Mejillones and consultant for the think tank Consejo de Políticas de Infraestructura and think tank Horizontal. For 12 years, Ms. Hutt Hesse was a partner and Regional Director for Latin America at Steer Davies Gleave, a prestigious British consulting firm specializing in transportation. There she was in charge of operations in Chile, Colombia, and Puerto Rico, and later broadened the presence of the company to Brazil and Mexico. She was a founder member and also the coordinator and general manager for the Evópoli political party. From 2010 to 2014 she acted as Transportation Viceminister. During her office, she coordinated the creation of the National Transportation Policy and development master plans for public transportation and national port and rail systems, proposing a long-term vision for Chilean transportation. A year ago Gloria Hutt Hesse became Minister of Transport and Telecommunications in Chile. In her spare time, she does gardening and follows her passion of designing sewing.

Cécile Texier is the Sustainability & CSR Vice-President of Alstom, a key player in the transport sector, developing and delivering sustainable solutions focused on shared and electrical mobility. Cécile drives the Sustainability, CSR and Climate strategy, 3-year plan and policies, local communities investment programs, sustainability in marketing activities, extra-financial reporting and dialog with stakeholders. In 2018, she was also appointed Global Diversity Champion of the Company.

She initially joined Alstom Group as Environment Health and Safety analyst in 2005 to manage corporate Energy and CO₂ programs. She had previous experience as environmental auditor at KPMG, leading assessments of environmental issues in the frame of merger and acquisition projects and verification of extra-financial data, and at the French National Institute for Environment and Risks (INERIS) where she started her career as environmental management consultant in 1997. She is also a Board member of the Alstom Foundation.

Cécile Texier holds a Civil Engineer degree from Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France.

Rafał Weber is responsible for matters related to road transport, public roads and road safety. Since 2015, he is a member of the Parliament. There, he is a member of the parliamentary committee of infrastructure and national defense commissions.

From 2014 he was the deputy director of the Provincial Traffic Center in Tarnobrzeg (Poland). In 2010-2014 and 2014-2015, the councilor of the City Council in Stalowa Wola (Poland). Mr. Weber is a graduate of the Higher School of Law and Administration in Rzeszów (Poland)

Dragos-Virgil TITEA’s third tenure as Secretary of State at the Ministry of Transport Romania started in 2018. His successive appointments rely on his in-depth interdisciplinary education and professional career in public/ private administration in the transport field, encompassing transport law, aviation and rail sectors and not only.

Dragos-Virgil TITEA holds a JD/LLB degree with the Bucharest University-Faculty of Law, along with post-university certifications in civil aviation security- airport access, monitoring and supervision, civil aviation internal quality audit and security management, as well as in internal affairs, classified information protection, security and governance.

His professional career comprises extensive mandates as a legal/administrative manager at the Romanian Administration of Air Traffic Services (ROMATSA R.A.), and a member of the Administration Board/Shareholders General Assembly at ROMATSA, as well as at the Romanian National Railway Company and the Telecommunications Society of the Romanian National Railway Company.

Saša Dalipagić was born on 20 May 1950 in Kakanj. He attended primary and secondary school (Gymnasium) in Mostar and graduated from the Road Transport College in Zagreb in 1975 earning the degree as road transport engineer. 

1997 – 2015 until he was appointed Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Communications and Transport of Bosnia and Herzegovina he worked with the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton as Inspector for Road Traffic and Supervision of the Construction and Maintenance of Road Infrastructure. He has also been engaged as Traffic Court-Appointed Expert, having completed in that capacity a large number of expert reports for the courts in this Canton.

Mr. Grabert has worked for the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC) for more than 20 years. He heads the Sustainable Development Mechanisms Programme of the UNFCCC, leading the work on market-based approaches to climate change mitigation. Prior to 2006 he served as a greenhouse gas emissions specialist and worked in numerous expert groups of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In addition, he also currently leads the secretariat’s work on Global Climate Action in supporting Non-State-Actors’ efforts towards the Paris Agreement. Before joining the United Nations, he was an industry and regional analyst for the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland.

Mr. Grabert holds a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from Wheaton College, Masters of International Economics from the Institut de Hautes Études Internationales in Geneva, and has undertaken post-graduate studies in Management at Stanford University, University of Navarra (IESE) and London Business School, and in Development at Harvard University.

Juliette Foster is an award-winning broadcaster and businesswoman. She has worked for the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) and has anchored flagship programmes at Bloomberg Television, Sky News and BBC World Service Television.

Since 2013 Diego DIAZ has held the positions of President of SNCF International and International Director of SNCF MOBILITES.

Diego DIAZ began his career as a Product and Project Manager for Thales Avionics before joining Bombardier Transportation where he held several leadership positions in the Services and Light Rail Divisions before being appointed Director of Strategy, Marketing & Sales.

Mr. Diaz holds a Master of Science in Aeronautics & Astronautics from M.I.T (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), a Master of Business Administration from the M.I.T Sloan School of Management and a French engineering degree from the “Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace” (ISAE-SUPAERO). 

Ms. Carvajal is a specialist in the subject of negotiation and alternative dispute resolution. She obtained her MBA with an emphasis on Marketing at the University of San Diego in California and holds a degree in Law from the University of Costa Rica. Her work over the last decade has provided her with extensive experience in the area of public service. She has specialized in Alternative Conflict Resolution Methods and is currently a member of the Centro Internacional de Arbitraje y Conciliación Comercial (International Center for Arbitration and Commercial Conciliation). She was a member of Road Safety Committee, which is led by the Fundación Internacional de Automovilismo (International Automobile Foundation). As Minister of Public Works and Transportation in Costa Rica she achieved a fourfold increase in the investment of public works, the resumption of construction at the national airport, which was stalled due to conflicts, the transformation of the driver’s license system, the promotion of a new traffic law and the inclusion of road safety components in the design of road infrastructure. She is currently Transport Sector Manager for South Asia at the World Bank. Karla is also leading the Gender Task Force for the World Bank's Transport Global Practice, working to operationalize the gender agenda in the transport sector.

Dr. Bipasha Baruah conducts interdisciplinary research on gender, development and globalization; women and work; and social, political and economic inequality. Dr. Baruah’s current research focuses on climate change and social justice. It aims broadly to understand how to ensure that a global low-carbon economy will be more gender equitable and socially just than its fossil-fuel based predecessor. Dr. Baruah frequently serves as an expert reviewer and consultant on gender equality issues to international development and environmental protection organizations.

Mattias Landgren is State Secretary to Tomas Eneroth, Minister for Infrastructure. He holds a Master’s Degree in Law from Uppsala University. Prior to serving as State Secretary, Mr. Landgren held various positions at the public sector, including: Political Adviser at the Prime Minister's Office, Chief Legal Officer at the Building Workers' Union and Collective Agreements Expert and Head of Section at Unionen (trade union). He has also worked as a law lecturer at Stockholm University.

Heather Thompson brings decades of experience in the environmental non-profit sector to ITDP. Most recently, she has been advising clients, including the Asian Development Bank, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and the Environmental Defense Fund, in designing strategies that will have a large-scale impact. Ms. Thompson has been involved with ITDP for many years, initially as co-founder and Vice President of programs for ClimateWorks. Ms. Thompson has sat on the ITDP board of directors for the last eight years, serving as board chair for the last two years. She holds a MSc in environmental economics from the University of York, U.K. and a B.S. in biological sciences from the University of California, San Diego.

Rana Kortam is the Global Head of Women’s Safety Public Policy for Uber. She leads the company’s efforts around the issue, working with governments, researchers, NGO’s, as well as local policy teams in over 60 countries Uber operates in. Her passion is ensuring women find a safe ride and a flexible way to earn income in Uber.

A born and raised Egyptian, she previously led public policy for Uber in Egypt, shaping the future of regulation for the budding tech ecosystem.

A techie at heart, Rana graduated Summa Cum Laude from the American University in Cairo with a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering. Prior to joining Uber, she led developer relations for Google in the Middle East and Africa, before managing public policy for British American Tobacco in North Africa. Straddling the worlds of tech and policy, and a serious zeal for everything women empowerment, she is an expert in several public policy issues, including women’s mobility and safety, gender based violence especially in transport and public spaces, gender equality and economic enablement.

Pat Cox has been President of the European Parliament Former Members’ Association (2010-2014), President of the European Movement International (2005-2011), a former President of the European Parliament (2002-2004), and Member of the European Parliament (1989-2004). Between 1998 and 2002 he was President of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR) Group European Parliament. Prior to this Cox was a current affairs television broadcaster for RTE, Ireland's national broadcaster, from 1982 to 1986 and Secretary General Progressive Democrat Party (Ireland) between 1986 and 1989.

Andreas Scheuer is Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure of Germany since March 2018. He studied political science, economics and sociology at Passau University, graduating with the degree of Magister Artium in 2001. In 2004 he got an award of a doctorate by the Charles University in Prague. Mr Scheuer has been Member of the German Bundestag since 2002. From 2009 to 2013 he was Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development and Federal Government Coordinator for Freight Transport and Logistics. From December 2013 to March 2018 he was Secretary-General of the Christian Social Union (CSU).

Mr. Lim was born in Masan, Gyeongsangnam-do, in the Republic of Korea. He majored in nautical science at the Korea Maritime and Ocean University (KMOU), Busan, graduating in 1977. He worked on ships as a Korean naval officer and for an international shipping company. He joined the Korea Maritime and Port Administration in 1985, while continuing with further studies at the Graduate School of Administration, Yonsei University, obtaining a Master’s Degree in 1990.  He then studied maritime administration at the World Maritime University (WMU), graduating with a master’s degree. From 1995 he attended a doctoral programme for international law at KMOU, completing course work in 1998.  Mr. Lim began attending IMO meetings as part of the Republic of Korea’s delegation in 1986 and he engaged in activities to promote maritime safety through effective implementation of IMO conventions in his country and other IMO Member States in the Asian region. He was elected Chair of IMO's Sub-Committee on Flag State Implementation (FSI - now III) in 2001 and of the Tokyo Memorandum on Port State Control in 2004.  In 2006, Mr. Lim was appointed Director General of the Maritime Safety Bureau of the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs (MLTM) and then as a Senior Maritime Attaché at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in London and led all IMO work for the Republic of Korea, serving as an Alternate Permanent Representative to IMO up to August 2009. Following that, he was re-appointed Director General for Maritime Safety Bureau (MLTM). In March 2011, Mr. Lim was appointed Commissioner of the Korean Maritime Safety Tribunal (KMST).  In July 2012, he assumed the position of President of Busan Port Authority, until January 2016 when he took up his appointment as Secretary-General of IMO. 

Alexandre de Juniac became the seventh person to lead the International Air Transport Association (IATA) when he took on the role of Director General and CEO from 1 September 2016. De Juniac has almost three decades of experience in both the private and public sectors. This includes senior positions in the airline and aerospace industries and the French government. De Juniac served as Chairman and CEO of Air France-KLM (2013-2016) and prior to that as Chairman and CEO of Air France (2011-2013). Under de Juniac’s leadership Air France and Air France-KLM underwent a successful restructuring that improved efficiency and strengthened performance. He has also served on the IATA Board of Governors (2013-2016). De Juniac has broad aviation sector experience, including 14 years at French aerospace, space, defense, security and transportation company Thales, and its predecessor companies Thompson-CSF and Thompson SA (1995-2009). In his last position at Thales, de Juniac was responsible for the company’s operations and sales in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.De Juniac has also held positions in the French government. His career began with the Conseil d’Etat (State Council) from 1988 to 1993. Subsequently, he served in the Department of Budget (1993-1995); and in the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Employment as Chief of Staff to then Minister Christine Lagarde (2009-2011). A French citizen, de Juniac was born in 1962. He is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique de Paris and Ecole Nationale de l’Administration. At IATA he works from both the association’s main offices in Montreal, Canada and Geneva, Switzerland.

Stientje van Veldhoven began her career in 1997 as personal assistant to Elly Plooij van Gorsel, a member of the European Parliament for the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). From 1999 to 2003 she served as an innovation policy officer at the Ministry of Economic Affairs. From 2003 she worked at the Permanent Representation of the Netherlands to the European Union as first secretary for research policy and as scientific and technological attaché. In 2007 Ms Van Veldhoven became a policy advisor at the European Commission, focusing on the coordination of intergovernmental initiatives. From 2009 to 2010 she was unit coordinator for the Zuidvleugel Randstad region at the Ministry of Economic Affairs. On 17 June 2010 Ms Van Veldhoven became a member of the House of Representatives for Democrats ’66 (D66), with policy responsibility for issues including sustainability, mobility, climate and energy, development cooperation, and agriculture, nature and food quality. From 2012 to 2017 she served as a member of the presidium and secretary to the D66 parliamentary party. On 26 October 2017 Stientje van Veldhoven was appointed State Secretary for Infrastructure and Water Management in the third Rutte government.

Mr. Jeong Ryeol Kim was appointed as Vice Minister for Transport, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of Korea in April 2018. Having joined the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport from 1989, he has been in senior positions in Transport and Logistics, Road, Public Housing Construction, Policy Planning, as well as Public Agency Relocation departments. He also has experience as visiting professor in Portland State University, USA in 2015, as well as seconded to Urban Housing Office in Gyeonggi Provincial Government, Korea.